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  • Place yourself on your hands and feet or fists and feet and with your partners decide on a destination from a tree to a patch of barren ground. Start going there moving your limbs from your body and your partner works with his legs to move you in the opposite direction. Change roles and repeat…

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  • Most of the time we are training to react. We memorize a response and couple it to a trigger and run the program in a loop. This takes a lot from our freedom and usually it is akin to trying to open all doors with the same key. Here is a simple drill to start…

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  • Walking in

    Many of our viewing of what is portrayed as  violence is very straight forward. One walks directly toward the other and start hitting and grabbing or just stabbing. While this does happen , the reality of things is that when you are approached in such manner it is easy to become agitated and actually do…

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  • Timing

    Start by yourself facing a wall. Start walking toward it and learn how many steps it takes to reach the wall with your front. Do this from different distances and then from each side and walking backwards. Have a friend turn you around and place you in some position in a room and while you…

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  • tête-à-tête

    Easy is working your strengths to someone’s weaknesses. Easy is not fun in learning.  Place the top of your forehead (don’t overdo it if you are balding as I am 🙂 ) to your partners top of forehead and your hands shielding your eyes. First feel the hard surface of the bone against yours and…

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  • Start by standing with your hands aiming forward. Have your partner walk around you and from time to time  push your arms as you keep breathing and work to avoid letting the push progress to the body. Keep walking and learn to keep moving freely while in contact and With your eyes and contact learn…

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  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pw-eueAmt9I&feature=youtu.be In this video we continue to learn to hit with everything we have and to move without excess tension. Do the work and know yourselves.

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  • Start by laying on the ground and relaxing. Feel where the ground is touching your body and lift piece by piece off and back on the ground.  Have a partner work to pick you up off the ground and both of you work to keep moving and avoid excess tension. This means you don’t work…

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  • We walk with our feet on the ground. We crawl with our belly to the earth and we roll side to side no matter which gave contact first. Sometimes and working honestly with unstable structures such as sticks with round ends or people you can find support you can use from what others consider resistance…

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  • In this video we go over the base of the work which is awareness and put it to work with strikes. We build our awareness up the arm from the fingers to the eyes and breath and the student on the receiving end learns to keep breathing avoid excess tension and build mental solidness. Exactly…

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